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<h1>Announcing Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3 Beta (SGE 6.2u3beta)</h1>
Regensburg, Germany -- April 24, 2009
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We are announcing today the availability of the Sun Grid Engine 6.2 Update 3
Beta release.

SGE 6.2u3beta is a feature update release. We are delivering new modules
and new functionality with this version.<br>

<b>This Beta lasts until Wednesday, 5/20/2009. The final release is planned for
mid June 2009.</b>
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<h1>What's New in this Beta Release</h1>

<p><h3>Sun Grid Engine Inspect</h3>
SGE Inspect, a new Monitoring and Configuration Console, allows to monitor
Sun Grid Engine clusters and to monitor and configure the Service Domain
Manager (SDM).</p><br>

<p><h3>Service Domain Manager (SDM) - Cloud Adapter and Initial Power Saving Support</h3>
The new SDM service adapter interface adds support to manage external
virtual resources. The implementation provides an interface to manage
Amazon's EC2 AMIs. Those AMIs could include SGE execution hosts which can be
added to a local Sun Grid Engine cluster.<br><br>

The enhanced spare pool implementation can be configured to power cycle
machines when being added or removed from the spare pool.</p><br>

<p><h3>"Exclusive Job" Scheduling Enhancement</h3>
Jobs and all parallel tasks of a job can request exclusive scheduling on a
host. Jobs requiring resources only available for one job per host or jobs
having access patterns to hardware resources like CPUs or memory, which make
it useful to run only one job per machine can request non shared access.</p><br>

<p><h3>Complete Microsoft Windows Vista Support for GUI Jobs</h3>
A native Windows job can now open a GUI on a Windows Vista and Windows
Server 2008 desktop (SGE 6.2u2 added support for those Windows operating
systems)</p><br><br>

<h3>Links, Support and Feedback</h3>
Download
    <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/get_it.jsp">http://www.sun.com/software/gridware/get_it.jsp</a></div><br>

Documentation
   <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3">http://wikis.sun.com/display/gridengine62u3</a></div><br><br>

Support and Feedback
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      <td>Technical support alias:</td>
      <td><div style="margin-left: 20px;">sge-beta __at__ sun dot com</div></td>
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      <td>Feedback on documentation:</td>
      <td><div style="margin-left: 20px;">sge-beta-doc __at__ sun dot com</div></td>
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      <td>General feedback:</td>           
      <td><div style="margin-left: 20px;">sge-beta-feedback __at__ sun dot com</div></td>
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